a CZ. We look at the spread of the Corona virus today. We could get little glimpses into the future from both places that air recently getting, in fact of places that aren't infected but also the places where it all started. When you look around the world in Europe, North America, the Middle East, now that you can see that this is really we're really at the let's say period of exponential growth. So we're still seeing the virus going up very, very rapidly, even in hard hit places like like Italy, for example. So these countries are still have months of this challenge in front of them. The question, then, is what's when it happened? Is this going to disappear completely? Are we going to get into a period of psychological waves? Or we're gonna end up with low level sort of endemic disease that we have to deal with? If we do the testing of every single case, rapid isolation of the cases, you should be able to keep cases down low. If you simply rely on the big sort of shutdown measures without finding every case, then you could every time to take the brake off of that pressure you put on the virus. It could come back and waves. So that future Frankie may be determined by us in our response as much of the virus. And the big question right now is our country's going to use this time during the shutdown periods. Optimally, this is guerrilla warfare against the virus. The virus is just going to sit you out, right? Well, just circulate quietly among, you know, households, et cetera, and then you're gonna let them all go again. Form it'll take. There's no reason it shouldn't take off again unless you're ready for the thing that we don't really understand. And it may simply be a matter of time is how come some places like this northern part of Italy really explode when other places that look the same in terms of the, you know, age distribution in terms of the medical capacity, terms of the temperatures, all those different factors didn't that that's that's nature. That's you know there's a biologic process. They don't run like clockwork. They, they they there's great variability. This will end with, you know, humanity and victories over yet another virus. There's no question about that The question is how much and how fast we will take the measures necessary to minimize the damage that this thing this thing can do. So in time we will have therapeutics. We will have vaccines were in a race against that and we should be able to win that race. And it's going to take great cooperation and patience from the general population to play their part. Because of the end of the day, it's going to be the general population that stops this thing and slows it down enough to to get it under control.

As the coronavirus outbreak continues to spread, companies are doing their part to help those working to contain the threat. Starbucks has announced that front-line responders to the outbreak are eligible to receive free coffee. Starting Wednesday through May 3, any customer who identifies as a frontline responder to the COVID-19 outbreak will receive a tall brewed coffee, hot or iced, at no charge.The company identified front-line responders as police officers, firefighters, paramedics, doctors, nurses, hospital and medical staff and medical researchers.In addition, the coffee chain announced it is donating $500,000 to two health care charities. The Starbucks Foundation will give $250,000 to Operation Gratitude, an organization working to deliver 50,000 care packages to health care workers and another $250,000 to Direct Relief, an organization supporting the delivery of personal protective equipment and essential medical items. Earlier this month, Starbucks announced measures including limiting seating its stores and suspending the use of personal cups in response to the global outbreak.

As the coronavirus outbreak continues to spread, companies are doing their part to help those working to contain the threat.

Starbucks has announced that front-line responders to the outbreak are eligible to receive free coffee.

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Starting Wednesday through May 3, any customer who identifies as a frontline responder to the COVID-19 outbreak will receive a tall brewed coffee, hot or iced, at no charge.

In addition, the coffee chain announced it is donating $500,000 to two health care charities. The Starbucks Foundation will give $250,000 to Operation Gratitude, an organization working to deliver 50,000 care packages to health care workers and another $250,000 to Direct Relief, an organization supporting the delivery of personal protective equipment and essential medical items.

Earlier this month, Starbucks announced measures including limiting seating its stores and suspending the use of personal cups in response to the global outbreak.